The fall of the Qing Dynasty was due to its decay and inability to seal the country, so at the end of the period, it was oppressed by the world powers and forced to sign various treaties for the cession of territory. Later, the Xinhai Revolution overthrew the Qing Dynasty in one fell swoop and established the Republic of China. So after the Xinhai Revolution, if the government of the late Qing Dynasty did not surrender and did not concede defeat, what would be the consequences?
The demise of the Qing Dynasty is in line with the historical law of "unity and long-term division", partly because the rulers of the dynasty were Manchus, while most of the world was Han, and most of the policies implemented by the Qing Dynasty during its rule for more than 200 years were aimed at the Han and other ethnic minorities, which was obviously not in line with the spirit of social communism. Later, the late Qing government was weak and incompetent, which made the country humiliated by other powerful countries, and the people endured humiliation and burden, and finally broke out the Wuchang Uprising (that is, the Xinhai Revolution).
The success of the revolution represents that the general trend of the Qing court has gone, and if the Qing Dynasty at this time is unwilling to surrender, there are undoubtedly the following three situations.
First: The revolutionaries will certainly destroy the Manchu Regime with their own hands, so that they can clean up the Manchus one by one.
Second: The Qing court used its remnants to oppose the revolutionaries, and retreated to the Yangtze River in order to fight for the rule of the revolutionaries, so that it was possible to form a new round of southern and northern dynasties.
Third: At that time, the military power was in the hands of the warlord Yuan Shikai, so his position could influence the fate of the revolutionaries and the Qing court.
However, Yuan Shikai himself was a Han Chinese, hiding his own ambitions, and it was not easy to see the revolution become a natural way to help the Qing Dynasty, so if the Qing court did not surrender and chose to resist, the most likely thing was to encounter an armed attack by the warlords, and then the Manchu Qing royal magnates were raided, confiscated all their property, and then executed one by one, and the rest of the Manchu clan relatives and relatives may be imprisoned or exiled to the frontier. As the emperor Puyi, he was directly expelled from the Forbidden City or imprisoned, and if the situation continued to deteriorate, then the Manchus would become sinners of the state, and all the clans would be expelled from China. Therefore, even if the Qing court was pedantic, it would not fail to consider such serious consequences.
According to the situation at that time, the whole of China had entered the era of warlord chaos, and it was simply not controlled by the Qing Dynasty. In the south, Xiao Zhuge and Li Zongren sat in liangguang to form a north-south confrontation, Zhang Zuolin in the northeast dominated the side, as well as Yan Xishan in Shanxi, Feng Yuxiang, and so on.
At this time, the Qing Dynasty had no soldiers and no soldiers, and they were simply unable to confront the revolutionaries and Yuan Shikai, so the Qing court was finally left with only Puyi and a group of loyal Manchu clan relatives. This group of Manchu Qing people chose not to resist the revolution at that time, but later established the puppet state of Manchukuo, and it can be seen here that they were not willing to accept defeat.
Why is it said that in the end of the Qing Dynasty, only the Manchu Qing relics were supporting, because the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military officials had long expected that the Qing Dynasty had gone, and they all sought their own way out. In particular, the first assistant minister Li Hongzhang had the foresight to meet with Dr. Sun Yat-sen, and the two talked harmoniously, and Li Hongzhang almost became the governor of Liangguang.
After the Xinhai Revolution, the Manchu Eight Banners Army has long been vulnerable, when the Zhenjiang peasant revolt, there were about 7,000 rebels, and the local garrison of the Eight Banners more than 20,000, also equipped with cannons, when the rebel army killed the general, these Eight Banners officers and soldiers were too frightened to resist, the commander in charge of the blue flag general Ai Xin Jue Luo Zai Mu issued several consecutive orders to attack, the result of this group of frightened Eight Flags Army are indifferent, and finally Ai Xin Jue Luo Zai Mu is also discouraged, before agreeing to the soldiers to surrender.
Therefore, the momentum of the Xinhai Revolution was irreversible, the Qing court was simply powerless, and the Manchus may see the overall situation and not be safe, so they chose to surrender with the idea of "staying in the green mountains and not being afraid of no firewood" in order to plan a comeback in the future. Facts have also proved that after the Qing court submitted to the Republic of China, Puyi was still able to retain the throne and continue to live in the Forbidden City, and other Manchus were all treated favorably by policy, and if they had not surrendered, it is estimated that the end would have been very tragic.